Pointless Prize: Ross Hill Loop

[randomduck]

Steve O: I included a south starting version in an edit of the intro post.

That said: there's a kind of poetry to having it start at the north. Who says these loops need to be convenient?

[DCAKen]

To prevent double-dipping, you could modify this to count the number of times a participant does both the Ross Drive Up and Over and the Beach Dr. - Police Station to Broad Branch segments, similar to how the Loopy for Arlington competition works.

[Serdar]

I rode Ross Hill Loop today. Too bad I can't catch up with Merlin, who accomplished 12 loops so far.
https://www.strava.com/activities/8391750755

[randomduck]

To prevent double-dipping, you could modify this to count the number of times a participant does both the Ross Drive Up and Over and the Beach Dr. - Police Station to Broad Branch segments, similar to how the Loopy for Arlington competition works.

Suuuuure: try and make it easier for those Virginia folk to take the southern approach.

That's certainly an option, but it's a little tougher to figure out a pure loop as a RCP ride could do the Ridge-Ross ascent, then continue up Beach Drive for a while, turn around, descend Beach and technically complete the loop, albeit not in a contiguous motion. That complicates scoring the loop I intended to have for the competition. I'm fine with folks approaching it from the north (as originally intended) or the south (as Virginia asked for), but it should be a contiguous loop - and linking the two sections might not work in this way.

[merlin]

My plan is to count the max of the true north start loops and imposter south start loops for each ride. This will solve for double dipping, but if someone does a ride that starts with a south start loop and later has a north start loop they'll lose, but that's okay, such a person doesn't deserve to be counted.

[Serdar]

So, does my loop count? I approached it from the north point, continued riding to the south entry, made a loop, and headed to Virginia.
https://www.strava.com/activities/8429537576

[arlcxrider]

This pointless prize is still not on the leadership, as of Day 25. It shows up only under the hashtag.

[randomduck]

So, does my loop count? I approached it from the north point, continued riding to the south entry, made a loop, and headed to Virginia.
https://www.strava.com/activities/8429537576

Yes, that should count. As long as it's the full loop, done in one crack and not doing the first half, riding on, then doing the second half, it's good.

[randomduck]

This pointless prize is still not on the leadership, as of Day 25. It shows up only under the hashtag.

I was wondering that myself. O BAFS website tabulation deities: what's the answer here?

[arlcxrider]

I keep getting 502 errors for the Ross Hill Loop PP. Appears to be some sort of glitch in the tabulations.